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Intellectually, I know there's a huge difference between a programmer who has 99th percentile programming skills and one who has 90th percentile programming skills.

Depends what you're building. If you need cutting-edge programming expertise or knowledge of computing's deep magic, then yeah.

If you're building a CRUD database or a local-mobile-social app, you don't need the expertise that much.



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